How To Do A Head Lice Olive Oil Treatment

Getting head lice is not a sign or moral or economic failure on your part. Head lice know how to get on any human head – no matter what the moral or economic conditions of the head's owner happen to be. You also don't have to use harsh over the counter head lice treatments – especially if you can't get to the store. Many heads are now louse free with the use of a natural head lice treatment. One of the most common is a head lice olive oil treatment.

What You Need

First off, you need to perform the head lice olive oil treatment on yourself and every member of your household. You will only get re-infested with head lice if the other members of your home do not undergo some kind of head lice home treatment. You also need to put all of your bedding and sleepwear into the dryer (if you have one) and let them tumble around on high heat for ten minutes. That should be hot enough to kill the eggs.

Now, you need to get a bottle of olive oil (preferably the cheapest you have on hand. Having to use extra virgin imported olive oil for a head lice olive oil treatment is very painful to your pocketbook). Also get the smallest toothed comb you own. This could be a nit comb or a pet's flea comb. Worse comes to worse, just use a regular comb. You also need a roll of paper towels. You could add essential oil of lavender or tea tree, if you want. Head lice hate the small of lavender and tea tree.

What You Do Now

Some will tell you that you have to warm the oil for your head lice olive oil treatment, but that can be dangerous, especially if you've never warmed up olive oil to be touched before. Go to the shower or bathtub and get your hair as saturated as possible. Then mix ten parts olive oil to one part essential oil, or just slather the oil on. The oil has to be plastered on your head.

Keep this on for at least ten minutes, allowing time for the buggers to suffocate. Then, comb your hair thoroughly, wiping the comb on the paper towels after each swipe. There will be nits caught in the olive oil. Then rinse your head. Trash or burn the nit and oil marked paper towels.

You will most likely have to repeat this lengthy procedure once more in three days or so. Even if you don’t see any signs of head lice, repeat it anyway in less than a week, just to make sure you caught any eggs that have hatched since the first head lice olive oil treatment.